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English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle
- mtgx 10y agoBusiness idea: Start a tech comedy video podcast network. With the predicted explosive growth of IoT, there should be plenty of interesting material in the coming years. And of course, https://twitter.com/internetofshit https://twitter.com/internetofshit is already great inspiration for one.
- cstross 10y agoWe're way ahead of you! See also: why Scottish people hate speech recognition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU
- collyw 10y agoStart a store that sells old school manually serviceable stuff after everyone has put the internet where it doesn't belong.
- Bartweiss 10y agoStart a store that reprograms IoT things with a clawhammer, then sells the DRM-free results.
- laurent123456 10y ago> but now we're eating dinner in dark while lights download a firmware update His lights probably got the last Windows 10 update and are now updating and rebooting whenever they feel like it.
- okket 10y agoSee also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690121 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690121 (9 hours ago, 6 comments)
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- roymurdock 10y agoThis is one of the most British headlines I have ever seen. Up there with "Chutney blew up my fridge" http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=1310323 http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=1310323
- dghf 10y agoThe English regional press is brilliant for this sort of thing. 'Sudden appearance of white line in Evesham explained' [0] 'Evesham football club Chairman's says they would have been hit financial [sic] if stolen tractors were not recovered' [1] 'Man stole coffee and spanners from Poundland' [2] 'Former Pershore asparamancer makes her global predictions for 2016' [asparamancy: divination by throwing asparagus in the air] [3] [0] http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14128452.Sudden_appearance_of_white_line_in_Evesham_explained/?ref=mr&lp=3 http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14128452.Sudden_appeara... [1] http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14793275.Chairman__39_s_says_club_would_have_been_hit_financial_if_stolen_tractors_were_not_recovered/?ref=mrb&lp=22 http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14793275.Chairman__39_s... [2] http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14790600.Man_stole_coffee_and_spanners_from_Poundland/?ref=mrb&lp=30 http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14790600.Man_stole_coff... [3] http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14196327.Former_Pershore_asparamancer_makes_her_global_predictions_for_2016/?ref=ebln http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14196327.Former_Pershor...
- phpnode 10y agoI like that the punishment for Man who stole coffee and spanners from Poundland was that he had to stay in court until 5pm that day. Truly that is justice.
- timthorn 10y agoYou've reminded me of the Framley Examiner: http://framleyexaminer.com/ http://framleyexaminer.com/
- dTal 10y ago"Residents Thanked For Patience Ahead of ‘Big Week’ of Bin Collections" http://www.wrexham.com/news/residents-thanked-for-patience-ahead-of-big-week-of-bin-collections-120577.html http://www.wrexham.com/news/residents-thanked-for-patience-a...
- Odenwaelder 10y ago@internetofshit right here.
- tempodox 10y agoDownloading a cup of tea from amazon.co.uk can't be harder than this.
- sevensor 10y agoI expect when it was ready, it was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
- idlewords 10y agoI read the whole tweet thread waiting for this outcome.
- cyberferret 10y ago"Share and enjoy!" - (c) Nutrimatics Corp.
- spdustin 10y agoI actually read the whole thing as an homage to Hitchhikers. It had that "English comedy" tone from the beginning. I think the tweets' author is a brilliant comedic writer.
- peterwaller 10y agoThis is a work of art. :)
- codingmyway 10y agoHe did check for 418 responses, right?
- mrec 10y agoThat would only explain an inability to make coffee, not an inability to make tea. 2.3.2 418 I'm a teapot Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout.
- andmarios 10y agoThe title could also be “data specialist can't get work done without his devops team”. :p
- FussyZeus 10y agoThis is one of the rare parts of the future that makes me want to take up isolationist living.
- nicktelford 10y agoThis stream of tweets reads like satire, but it demonstrates an extremely important point: the "Internet of Things" will never become mainstream so long as every appliance is a walled garden. Without open protocols to allow people to connect together whatever they like, this technology will remain a niche for the minority that know how to write the software themselves - and have the patience to.
- verbify 10y agoI think the bigger point is that smart devices should gracefully degrade to dumb devices.
- n0us 10y agoBut then you wouldn't have to buy another one.
- markild 10y agoYES! Light switch not online, still switches lights. Smoke detector not connected to wifi, still beep when detecting smoke. The "smart" part is for convenience, not to create unnecessary dependencies. I'm a bit tired of seeing things that obviously only need access to local resources fail when the internet goes out.
- nicktelford 10y agoVery good point. It always disappoints me when I encounter systems that seem to ignore the Fallacies of Distributed Computing[1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoI spent 5 years programming around those 8 fallacies for a web-conference company (ok maybe 3 fallacies reworded). Bottlenecks, network topology changes, different rules on different networks. Means you have to measure each connection and code multiple strategies. Probably should open-source that stuff, because its a growing problem and no sign of relief in sight.
- kayoone 10y agoso IoT DevOps is apparently a thing nowadays ;)
- cyberferret 10y agoHad to LOL at "Hadoop cluster in his garage"...
- timthorn 10y agoOf course, he could always have pressed the physical boil button on the base unit...
- Chris2048 10y ago> Rittman was trying to build the integration functionality himself 11 hours is nothing
- cyberferret 10y agoTime well spent. A good cup of tea is ALWAYS worth whatever time it takes. :) I enjoy the looks of bemusement I get from my friends used to their '2 minute takeout coffees' when they see me take 20 minutes or more to brew a nice pot of tea...
- julienmarie 10y agoI just don't understand the concept as you can't fill it up with water through Wifi, so anyway you have to physically handle de kettle.
- collyw 10y agoThere is way too much of this shit. http://weputachipinit.tumblr.com/ http://weputachipinit.tumblr.com/
- noer 10y agoA lot of the time, when I hear about an IoT product (such as this tea kettle or the wifi enabled bathroom Scale my coworker told me about) I think, "Just because you can doesn't mean you should"
- TheBeardKing 10y agoI want a smart scale. I've considered bluetooth but would prefer wifi, just waiting to catch a deal on one. Seeing my daily weight charted over a year gets my analytic side giddy, but my frugality has so far beat it back.
- onion2k 10y agoI've owned a lot of "quantified self" style gadgets over the past decade and all they've really done is make me realise that numbers along aren't enough to get me to change my lifestyle. The data is interesting, but it isn't information because it lacks context, and as such it doesn't do anything for you. Seeing a pretty graph that tells you that you've gained some weight might sound helpful and motivating but (for me) it was actually just a little depressing.
- TheBeardKing 10y agoI can understand that, but I'm not looking for motivation, just statistics. I'm already disciplined in weight management, tracking is just interesting.
- vonmoltke 10y agoIs the effort of connecting and maintaining a WiFi-enabled scale really less than just jotting down the number and putting it in Excel?
- collyw 10y agoReminds me of a couple of weeks back, I went to a new Media Mark (consumer electronics store) near my place in Barcelona. It had some robots in the windows shuffling stuff of shelves for show. I got in and realized it wasn't actually a normal store but some new high tech version. There were some touchscreen devices where you were supposed to make an order then go and collect it from the desk at the other side (and the robots were getting the stuff from shelves). Tried the two that were available. "Error establishing connection" type error. Tried the one next to it. The same. The few staff that were on the main shop floor seemed busy explaining how the things worked to other customers so I went to the old school department store next door. Welcome to the future.
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- lazyant 10y agoI've worked as a network engineer, I wasn't able to set up a printer with WiFi after an hour or so (or rather I was able to set it up but settings will disappear)
- mikey_p 10y agoWhat's baffling to me, is that this is how almost every single Wifi gadget seems to work for me. I've spent hours trying to get our Fitbit Aria scale to connect to the right network, and reconfigure it, and it almost never works. Same thing with the Anova cooker. It worked fine for a few days and then my phone can't find it anymore. Try doing the setup again and it always fails. There has to be a better way to handle setup and configuration for these types of network connecting gadgets.